Amazing War Production in DeKalb County in 1944

From the March 13, 2019, MidWeek  "Looking Back."

1944, 75 Years Ago.

"Many outstanding production achievements have been recorded in DeKalb county war plants during the past few months, but most of them must go unheralded on account of the strict censorship necessities of wartime.

"However, it is revealed by the J.V. Patten Company of Sycamore, which has been known to have a war contract, that heavy production on the Boots roll top airplane engine nut is now reaching large figures.  This special type of nut, that helps make American  Airplane engines tops on the war front, are being turned out  at the Sycamore plant at a rate of a half million a month."

--GreGen